Clustered to gregarious on well decayed conifer wood; fruiting from late fall to early winter.

Edibility

Unknown.

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An attractive but uncommon mushroom, Chrysomphalina chrysophylla is recognized by a convex-depressed, peach-colored cap that is overlain with brownish, appressed fibrils or fine scales. Yellowish gills, a nearly glabrous stipe concolorous with the cap and a lignicolous habit also help to identify this species. Chrysomphalina aurantiaca, is a smaller, more common relative with an orangish cap and stipe and peach-orange, decurrent gills. It also occurs on rotting conifer wood. Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, another wood rotter, is somewhat similar, but has much brighter, forked gills.